taltoun

[Scotch al = auld = old; toun = town.] Old town. ( Scotch.) al-tru-işm, S. [In Ital. altrui = others; altrui other people's goods. Lat. alteruter one of two, the one or the other, either; alter one of two; uter =which of the two, or whether. A word framed by M. Comte, and adopted with warmly expre ed approval by Herbert Spencer, to expre an antithesis to Egoism.] Benevolence, beneficence. (Herbert Spencer: Psychol . (1881), vol. ii., § 524.